As you certainly know, Service Providers are taking a serious look at how to migrate towards IPv6, and how to coexist with IPv4 for many years to come. They are being forced to act for several reasons, not simply due to IPv4 address depletion (although that isn’t a minor consideration: IPv4’s address space of 4.3 billion is largely exhausted; IPv6 allows for 340 undecillion addresses – 340 x 1036! That’s a lot of addresses). In many cases governments are requiring support of IPv6, as are certain industries, notably the financial services sector. IPv6 has now moved from a trend to a reality. The problem is how to make it a reality in your network, without messing up everything else that is already therre. The solution? Call in the experts!

Virtualisation is a technology driver towards Data Centre consolidation, private cloud and enterprise-grade public cloud. This trend is changing data centres and has significant implications for the Data Centre infrastructure. This is manifest in relation to security, bringing both challenge and opportunity.